组织与人力资源系学术讲座系列2025年第5讲

来源：组织与人力资源系

主  题：Not All Gossip Is Equal: How Gossip Recipients’ Reactions to Gossipers Depend on the Type of Workplace Gossip

主讲人：钟锐（宾夕法尼亚州立大学助理教授）

时  间：5月27日（周二）14:00

地  点：明德商学楼712室 

语  言：中/英文

讲座摘要：

Existing research has presented mixed perspectives and evidence on how gossip recipients react to gossipers, particularly whether their responses are negative or positive. Our work reconciles these discrepancies by proposing that the answer depends on the type of workplace gossip the recipient receives. Building on Lee and Barnes’ (2021) nuanced typology—which distinguishes between two types of negative gossip (i.e., derogation-based and protection-based) and two types of positive gossip (i.e., endorsement-based and communion-based)—we argue that the receipt of the four types of workplace gossip leads recipients to exhibit divergent emotional and behavioral responses toward the gossiper. Specifically, drawing on moral emotion theory, we hypothesize that derogation-based gossip leads to avoidant behavior through moral disgust, protection-based gossip leads to helping behavior through gratitude, endorsement-based gossip leads to endorsement emulation through moral elevation, and communion-based gossip leads to socializing behavior through companionate love. To test these hypotheses, we first developed measures following a pre-registered procedure to capture the receipt of the four types of workplace gossip with three separate samples of employees. We then conducted three pre-registered studies using complementary methods: a multi-wave survey study, a recall-based experiment, and a scenario-based experiment. The results fully supported our hypotheses.

主讲人简介：

钟锐是美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学Smeal商学院管理与组织系的助理教授。他于2023年在加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学Sauder商学院获得组织行为学博士学位。钟锐的研究聚焦于职场中的“负面”现象。他的研究成果已发表在多家管理学顶级期刊上，包括Academy of Management Annals，Journal of Applied Psychology，Personnel Psychology，Journal of Management。

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